Poor nutrition during pregnancy almost triples the rate of antisocial personality disorder in adulthood.
Activists say they believe the incidents are caused by heat, bad ventilation and poor nutrition.
If everyone in a village is undernourished, poor nutrition becomes the norm and everyone accepts it.
Madagascar saw a big fall in mortality but levels of poor nutrition rose.
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Risk factors for epilepsy such as birth defects and poor nutrition are known to be more common among deprived groups.
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It is during this window of time that poor nutrition can affect health, cognitive development, educational achievement and ultimately future economic opportunities.
It said these all contributed to the breeding of diseases which, for people already weakened by poor nutrition, were difficult to resist.
At the time many military leaders recognized that poor nutrition was a significant factor reducing the pool of qualified candidates for service.
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Children with poor nutrition at age 3 are more aggressive and antisocial in the teenage years after controlling for a host of social adversity factors.
Yet 2m children under the age of five die every year in India alone, mostly thanks to poor nutrition or bad drinking water.
Not surprisingly, nearly all diarrhea-related deaths occur in the developing world, and are especially prevalent in areas with endemic poverty and poor nutrition.
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Inactivity, poor nutrition, and age-related changes, all help to reduce bone mass at the rate of approximately 1% per year after age 40.
He shows that babies who were small at birth because of poor nutrition in the womb have an increased risk of heart disease, strokes, diabetes and hypertension.
Other factors linked to higher aggression and violence in adulthood include smoking and drinking by the mother before birth, complications during birth and poor nutrition early in life.
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As his files documented, as a child he suffered from poor nutrition, severe parental neglect, sustained physical and sexual abuse, early head injuries, learning disabilities, poor cognitive functioning and lead exposure.
Scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) at Southampton University allowed for other factors such as poor nutrition and concluded that being underweight or doing little physical activity were responsible for increased risk.
"Poor nutrition is driving a literacy and numeracy crisis in developing countries, and is also a huge barrier to further progress in tackling child deaths, " said Jasmine Whitbread, Save the Children International's Chief Executive.
Carrying the wrong mutation only seemed significantly to increase the risk of osteoporosis if the carrier also had to endure harsh environmental conditions - such as poor nutrition - in the womb, and during the early years of life.
The company must cover all costs and make profit, at the same time achieve the social objective, such as, healthcare for the poor, housing for the poor, financial services for the poor, nutrition for malnourished children, providing safe drinking water, introducing renewable energy, etc. in a business way.
Started in mid-1997, it aims to help the rural poor escape the vicious circle of low income, bad nutrition, poor health and lack of education.
When high-calorie, nutrition-poor foods like Pop-Tarts, Doritos and soda were expensive, the shoppers purchased far fewer calories overall.
As countries move from extreme poverty to middle-income status, this move from starvation rations to calorie-rich, nutrition-poor diets has become more common.
The most obvious explanation for this paradox is that the two problems exist in separate realms: obesity among the well-to-do, under-nutrition among the poor.
Several inspections had revealed weaknesses in hospital management, poor record keeping and concerns about patient nutrition.
AMs heard evidence that the standard of hospital catering and patient nutrition in many cases was poor and that the problem was widespread.
In contrast, among those children in fair or poor health -- due to less healthy nutrition, less physical activity, higher obesity rates, and less access to healthcare -- only about 28 percent took the supplements.
Bringing fresh food, or frankly any food to poor communities, is certainly important, but without educating consumers about nutrition and providing affordable ways to make better choices, childhood obesity is unlikely to be effected.
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Mr Eberstadt points out that while nutrition, adequate shelter and health care were big problems for the poor when America's poverty measure was devised, the picture is different today.
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